[wplug] writing on a ntfs partition

Jonathan S Billings billings at negate.org
Wed Jun 23 10:36:00 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 10:12, Dileep Vangasseri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you very much for your help. In fact, there is
> no problem for me to mount the ntfs partition and to
> copy the files from there. But I can not write
> anything there. It shows the error message that it is
> a read only file system.

By default, most kernels built for distros will not have ntfs modules
with read-write support, but rather read-only.  You need to either build
a new module (from the web pages mentioned earlier) or build your own
kernel and be sure to enable the read-write option in the kernel
configuration stage.

-- 
Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>




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